The New York Times covered up Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s blackface Wednesday, instead referring to the racist face-paint as “brown makeup” and “dark makeup.” Herring, who is second in line to the governorship behind Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, admitted Wednesday that he wore blackface as part of a costume he wore to a college party in 1980. Instead of calling Herring’s costume “blackface,” the New York Times opted in a tweet to call it “brown makeup.” They employed a similar euphemistic tactic with an article headline, calling it “dark makeup.”

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